Chapter 19b. English to Latin

Question 1

1. Who started to destroy their [male] freedom at that time?

Answer 1

1. Quis lībertātem eōrum eō tempore dēlēre coepit?

Question 2

2. Whose [sg.] freedom was next destroyed by that author (of yours)?

Answer 2

2. Cuius lībertās ab istō auctōre deinde dēlēta est?

Question 3

3. What good books did the blind poet recite yesterday?

Answer 3

3. Quōs librōs bonōs poēta caecus heri recitāvit?

Question 4

4. Tomorrow the women will read the difficult books which you [sg.] sent.

Answer 4

4. Fēminae librōs difficilēs crās legent quōs mīsistī.

Question 5

5. All rivers flow into the sea and are mixed with it.

Answer 5

5. Omnia flūmina in mare fluunt et cum eō miscentur.

Question 6

6. And so we ourselves [male] have never desired this kind of sport [lit. plural], which was praised by many households.

Answer 6

6. Itaque id genus lūdōrum levius, quod ā multīs familiīs laudābātur, nōs ipsī numquam cupimus.

Question 7

7. The boys and girls will also have been praised by (their) mothers and fathers because of (their) good deeds.

Answer 7

7. Puerī et puellae propter facta bona ā mātribus patribusque quoque laudātae erunt.

Question 8

8. Why were these (horrible people) [male] afraid of the truth, by which many (people) had been helped?

Answer 8

8. Cūr istī vēritātem timēbant, quā multī adiūtī erant?

Question 9

9. The enemy [lit. plural] next began to navigate quickly across the huge river in Greece.

Answer 9

9. Hostēs trāns ingēns flūmen in Graeciā deinde cito nāvigāre incēpērunt.

Question 10

10. Which brave and famous man, about whom you have read, was expecting a short life and quick death?

Answer 10

10. Qui vir fortis clārusque, dē quō lēgistī, aetātem brevem mortemque celerem exspectābat?

Question 11

11. What serious studies always please you [sg.], or which ones do you now desire?

Answer 11

11. Quae studia gravia tē semper dēlectant, aut quae nunc dēsīderās?

Question 12

12. Quis sex virōs vīdit quī parāverant hōc facere?

Answer 12

12. Who [sg.] saw the six men who had prepared to do this?

Question 13

13. Quid neglēctum est heri ā secundō discipulō?

Answer 13

13. What was neglected by the second student [male] yesterday?

Question 14

14. Adiūtae sumus scientiā quae ab eō neglēcta erat.

Answer 14

14. We [female] were helped by the knowledge which had been neglected by him.

Question 15

15a. Cuius cōnsilia senēs omnium urbium illārum timēbant?

Answer 15

15a. Whose [sg.] plans did the old men of all those cities fear?

Question 16

15b. Quae cōnsilia dīligēbant?

Answer 16

15b. Which plans did they esteem?

Question 17

1. What is the nature of the soul? It is mortal.

Answer 17

1. Quae est nātūra animī? Est mortālis.

Question 18

2. Those arguments seemed both serious and reliable.

Answer 18

2. Illa argūmenta vīsa sunt et gravia et certa.

Question 19

3. What should we do against those (dreadful people) and their crimes?

Answer 19

3. Quid nōs facere contrā istōs et scelera eōrum dēbēmus?

Question 20

4a. What have I done?

Answer 20

4a. Quid ego ēgī?

Question 21

4b. Into what danger have I been thrown?

Answer 21

4b. In quod perīculum iactus sum?

Question 22

5a. O immortal gods! In what city are we living?

Answer 22

5a. Ō dī immortālēs! In quā urbe vīvimus?

Question 23

5b. What (kind of a) state do we have?

Answer 23

5b. Quam cīvitātem habēmus?

Question 24

5c. What crimes are we seeing?

Answer 24

5c. Quae scelera vidēmus?

Question 25

6. Who are (the) good men unless (it’s) those who are moved by duty and hold the benefits of (their) country in (their) memory?

Answer 25

6. Quī sunt bonī cīvēs nisi eī quī officiō moventur et beneficia patriae memoriā tenent?

Question 26

7a. Other (things), which are prepared with money, have been prepared by that foolish one [lit. “him.”]

Answer 26

7a. Alia, quae pecūniā parantur, ab eō stultō parāta sunt;

Question 27

7b. but his character [lit. plural] could not prepare true friends [male.].

Answer 27

7b. at mōrēs eius vērōs amīcōs parāre nōn potuērunt.

Question 28

1. How many (things) do old men hold in (their) minds!

Answer 28

1. Quam multa senēs in mentibus tenent!

Question 29

2. If serious study and effort and honesty continue,

Answer 29

2. Sī studium grave et labor et probitās in senectūte remanent,

Question 30

3. often also memory, and knowledge, and wisdom remain.

Answer 30

3. saepe manent etiam memoria, scientia, sapientiaque.

Question 31

4. Sophocles, that (famous) Greek writer, created tragedies into extreme old age;

Answer 31

4. Sophoclēs, scrīptor ille Graecus, ad summam senectūtem tragoediās fēcit;

Question 32

5. but because of this enthusiam he seemed to neglect (his) household …

Answer 32

5. sed propter hoc studium familiam neglegere vidēbātur …

Question 33

6. and was summoned to trial by his sons.

Answer 33

6. et ā filiīs in iūdicium vocātus est.

Question 34

7. Then the author recited to the judges that tragedy which he had with him and which he had written most recently, (namely) “Oedipus of Colonus.”

Answer 34

7. Tum auctor eam tragoediam quam sēcum habuit et quam proximē scrīpserat “Oedipum Colōnēum,” iūdicibus recitāvit.

Question 35

8. When this tragedy was recited, the old man was freed by the opinions of the judges.

Answer 35

10. Ubi haec tragoedia recitāta est, senex sententiīs iūdicum est līberātus.